The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... Beauclerk CHAP . X. 1754-1755 . - Life of Cave - Lord Chester- field and Johnson - Excursion to Oxford - Degree of M. A. Scheme of Life on Sundays CHAP . XI . 1756-1758 . - Johnson on Booksellers- Defence of Admiral Byng - Burney's ...
... Beauclerk CHAP . X. 1754-1755 . - Life of Cave - Lord Chester- field and Johnson - Excursion to Oxford - Degree of M. A. Scheme of Life on Sundays CHAP . XI . 1756-1758 . - Johnson on Booksellers- Defence of Admiral Byng - Burney's ...
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... Beauclerk - Wesley's Ghost Story - Mrs . Knowles 373 CHAP . LXIL 1784. - Lord Chancellor Thurlow's CHAP . XLVI . 1778. - Good Friday - Meeting with Edwards , an old Fellow - Collegian - Energy of Jolinson's Diction - Johnson's Historia ...
... Beauclerk - Wesley's Ghost Story - Mrs . Knowles 373 CHAP . LXIL 1784. - Lord Chancellor Thurlow's CHAP . XLVI . 1778. - Good Friday - Meeting with Edwards , an old Fellow - Collegian - Energy of Jolinson's Diction - Johnson's Historia ...
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... Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him with much gravity , ' Sir , it was a love marriage on both sides , ' I have heard from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their journey to church upon the ...
... Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him with much gravity , ' Sir , it was a love marriage on both sides , ' I have heard from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their journey to church upon the ...
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... Beauclerk : - ' The Havannah is taken a conquest too dearly obtained ; for Bathurst died before it . Viz Priamus tanti totaque Troja fuit . ' -BOSWELL . that I have heard him say he should not be satisfied , though attended by all the ...
... Beauclerk : - ' The Havannah is taken a conquest too dearly obtained ; for Bathurst died before it . Viz Priamus tanti totaque Troja fuit . ' -BOSWELL . that I have heard him say he should not be satisfied , though attended by all the ...
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... Beauclerk ; who , though their opinions and modes of life were so different , that it seemed utterly improbable that they should at all agree , had so ardent a love of literature , so acute an understanding , such ele- gance of manners ...
... Beauclerk ; who , though their opinions and modes of life were so different , that it seemed utterly improbable that they should at all agree , had so ardent a love of literature , so acute an understanding , such ele- gance of manners ...
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